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The startup that made office phone booths for Google, Uber, and NASA is selling modular work pods — see inside

Mary MeisenzahlSep 13, 2020, 19:18 IST

The meeting room is one of Room's offerings.

The prefab rooms go inside an office, and can help divide up an open office. They can also easily be moved to a different location in the office.

Room notes that in its research, over 70% of meetings are between two to four people, so these modular meeting rooms could largely replace large meeting rooms.

The standard meeting room starts at $15,995 and seats up to four people.

The Pro meeting room is $17,995, and has all the features of the standard model plus extras.

Both models are soundproof, with ultra quiet ventilation, a motion sensor for energy efficiency, and storage for cables and accessories.

The standard meeting room has a whiteboard, while the pro model upgrades to a built-in monitor and camera for easy videoconferencing, which is more important than ever now with so many people working remotely.

Room says that air inside the rooms is replenished every 60 seconds, which is five times more often than in a traditional conference room.

Because the rooms are modular and easy to move, they can be arranged in different configurations depending on needs at the moment.

Room also offers the open meeting room starting at $13,995, with most of the same features as the meeting room but added openness and airflow to the rest of the office.

Both meeting rooms come in a light or dark finish, with a $495 annual maintenance subscription.

These meeting pods begin shipping out in November. Room will ship them flat, and they just need to be plugged in to start using them.

The company is also offering the focus room, a private personal office.

Room also announced a new product, Room Sense, that gives clients data and analysis on space density and utilization to plan a safe return to the office.

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